the right to inclusive education for children with disabilities

Children with mental, physical and sensory disabilities, based on law 9355 are entitled to the monthlypayment of 9,300 Albanian Lekë per person, and so much also for the payment of their legal guardian. Incase they continue high school, this payment is doubled and it is tripled when pursuing higher education,encouraging this way their education.Also we can mention children that have benefited “status of the blind” based on the DCM 8098 dated03.28.1996, Article 1, which stipulates:• Beneficiaries from this law are all persons with full or partial loss of sight, congenital or acquired,which according to medical criteria are disabled in normal conditions.Children with the “Status of the Blind” are entitled to free services and have certain rights stipulatedon relevant sections of DCM, such as (an assistance payment for the blind, legal guardian, payments forcontinuing secondary and university education, as well as other services).Also, excluded from taxes are the handicapped children who are paraplegic and tetraplegic invalids, basedon Decision 387 dated 05.31.2001, which includes:• taxes for consular services;• taxes for use of radio-television sets;• taxes for use of telephones;• taxes for enrollment in higher education;• taxes for aerial border crossing of the Republic of Albania;• taxes for navigation document;• taxes for cleaning, waste removal and composting• taxes for amateur hunting and fishing;• taxes for solidarity for the public order and defense• taxes for annual registration of vehicles;community service for persons with disabilitiesAll social services for persons with disabilities until 2002 have been offered in two classic forms: residentialservice in development institutions and centers, and government program for economic support ofpersons entitled to the disability payments and in other cases with payment of legal guardian. From this year,as part of efforts to expand the typology of service for persons with disabilities is undertaken a nationalwideactivity aimed at improving the national social services for persons with disabilities, while reducingclosed residential service in favor of decentralized and communitarian service and gradually applying moremodern forms of service.data for centers and services:Korça development centerThe building on which the facility of this center is accommodated, is of 1931, a gift for orphan children bypatriotic families of Korça. Until 1950, this building served as an orphanage, and from that time till 1969 hasbeen the sanatorium hospital ward of the city. From 1964 to 1994 it has provided services for people withmental and physical retardation, it was called “Asylum” and under the Ministry of Health. After the creatingof MLSAEO, in 1994, this institution was renamed “Dallandyshet” Residential Development Centre, Korçë.This center has a successful collaboration with ASED Foundation which made possible the construction ofthe annex to this center with special facilities for the rehabilitation of individuals with mental and physicalproblems, as well as reconstruction of the whole building in general.The right to Inclusive Education for children with Disabilities29